To Desire an Empire

I have been on the Internet since Kodak pictures released the first full color web image. (besides the crummy clip-art stuff) I was around when MTV.com was launched. It’s too bad I was too young to have taken the dot com boom seriously, back then. I know there are some of you out there like me…and even more that are not.

To the ones who are like me…Do you remember when the hottest computer game was Oregon Trail? What about Word/Number Munchers? I remember the day I decided to give Google a try instead of, my old love, AltaVista. I remember the day I switched from Yahoo search, the old king of kings, to AltaVista searching.

Right now I hope I am talking to the those that remember when Ask.com used to have real people behind it. When it was AskJeeves.com You used to be able to go to them and ask a live person a question. Then that person would go out of their way to find you the exact answers you wanted.

I am looking back at the evolution of the Internet and seeing what it has become today. I do not miss my 9600 baud modem, and actually hope to forget it one day. However, it seems tons of people think the Internet has finished it’s mutations. They are carrying out the same techniques, reading the same books, and trying to communicate with customers the same way they did it in 2000-2001-2002-2003-2004 and even 2005.

We are not in that world where people are just signing online for their first time, and gulping up as much information as they can anymore. We are now in a state where TV is fast losing ground to the Internet. People are getting comfortable with the Internet. They know what they want, and they know how to tell whats right and whats wrong. We have lost the element of surprise, and we don’t even have that fresh new car smell anymore.

Not to mention we are not using the same Internet that 10 pages of Yahoo search results on one topic, meant it is highly competitive. (It was actually once like that) If you take a look at the recent huge successes, there are no one man shows. The big successes know that in today’s world it takes being a Juggernaut to succeed. Todays state of the Internet requires leverage to succeed. Leverage off of a quality built team around you, leverage off captive audiences, leverage off strong, trust built, relationships with your target markets.

We all still have this competitive mind frame, and we owe this to the current big dogs up at the top. They came from the days of yore when there were only thousands and millions of people online. When the Internet was still basically in its foundation stages. They needed that mentality to survive and succeed back then. We need to take a long hard look around today though. There are now billions of people online, and we now have niche markets that can have as many as a million people in their audience. Can you seriously as one person handle one million customers by yourself? I don’t think so.

If you’ll remember even those same big dogs at the top that once taught us to be competitive and secure our ideas…are now all partnering, forming teams, and sharing ideas. If you are still trying to crush your niche as a one man/woman show…doesn’t it just sound logical that if you had a clone of yourself you could do it twice as fast? This is why we need to be out there looking for people to team up with, partner with, ally with…and even dare I say it help boost each other cross market.

It only means more money in everyones pocket when we are all helping each other out. You don’t have to take my word for all of this…because at the end of the day…Who the hell am I… right? So, I do not expect you to take my word as gospel. Go out there and look for yourself. Step outside of your normal day to day activities and observe our new surroundings, observe those that are successful right now, and read into them…you’ll see that I didn’t just hammer away at my keyboard blindly. I see something…can you see it too?

Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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Wow, whudda weekend! As of the moments I am writing this 9:33pm Monday the 15th of January. I have made $1,928 in sales of a product I created last week titled “How to Cheat at Bum Marketing.” I have received just over 160 orders for this product since Thrusday at 10:24pm, the 11th of January when the product hit the marketplace. I released this product as a WSO. A WSO is a Warrior Special Offer and is basically just a marketplace inside of a bigger forum community. (WarriorForum.com)

The way I see it there was 4 major keys to my success.

Pay attention here because, I did all of this on purpose. I set out with my current success already expected as long as I did what I am about to tell you. I do not believe this to all have been a fluke, as I made each calculated decision on purpose.

Every one of these aspects can be duplicated on any forum

1.) I have been a part of this community for almost 6 months now which gave me access to very valuable information. I knew what the community as a whole liked and disliked. I knew what there fears and fantasy’s were by being an active member in the community. You can do this with any forum community, if they do not have a marketplace you’ll have to sell the product on your own site. You then just include a link to where they can buy this product in your forum signature box.

2.) I formated my sales letter better then most other sales letters I saw inside the forums marketplace. I used exstensive BB code (special html style codes that forums use to give text diff. styles) To layout and format my sales letter in a very clean and easily readable manner. I believe the viewers saw how meticulously I had created my sales letter, and subconsiously linked that to the quality my product also. “If he took this much effort into just his sales letter he must really care about his business, and his product must be of very high quality.”

3.) In the days leading up to my product release, I gave out a few smaller products or trinkets for free. These products were also of high quality and usefullness. This got my name into their minds as well as the level of quality I produce. Not to mention they were thankful for the free gifts. I distributed these gifts by placing links in my forum signature boxes and making more then the usual amount of posts for a few days to increase exposure.

4.) I kept my finger on the pulse of this market by always observing the spikes in interest or trends. I then capitalized on one of these spikes to create the highest chance of success for myself. Even though my product could have been marketed as a stand alone product, I chose to give it a marketing spin to fit right along with the spikes of interest at the time of my product launch. Capitalizing on the momentum or waves of big trends can slingshot your success rate so much higher then if you tried to create your own waves.

Those are the 4 keystones in my eyes, however, there were a couple other helpful tactics thrown in like garlic to a pot of mashed potatoes.

• I created a teaser video and uploaded it to youtube so that everyone could get a small taste before they bought.
• I created support packages as an upsell oppurtunity to my product.
• I offered a 100% no questions asked refund to ensure satisfaction.
• I advertised daily prizes for those that were already a customer, to get those still “on the fence” to hurry up and buy.

These I am sure helped greatly to take as much sales off the table as possible without needing to do much extra work. I plan on doing this once or twice a month from now on. As I believe I can duplicate this success over and over again as long as I implement the concepts mentioned. You can do it too… Lets all get rich and party together on giant yacht!

Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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I haven’t posted in awhile because I have been extremely busy with this…catch a special free review copy by following this link: Flip_That_Site.pdf

This is a “Review” copy sent out without charge to members of the www.Flip-That-Site.com email list. (list members get 50% off launch price) While we feel we have covered just about every base possible, we hope to receive a few pieces of feedback that will help us make this product even better.

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Included in the Official Website Flipping Suite are the Cheat Sheets, Case Studies, and Video tutorials of how to transfer domains and extract databases for the new owners.

I really hope you like what I have created and if you don’t PLEASE contact me and tell me why. I don’t bite!

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Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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Today is the second day of 2007…I couldn’t be happier. I woke up 2 hours earlier then I normally do so I could get a jump on things. I am just so excited about what I am going to accomplish this year that I can hardly sleep. It’s the truth!

First thing I did this morning was write down my goals.

• Stop trying to tell people only what I think they want to hear.
• If I make a to-do list, too do it today and not next week.
• Show everyone who I am more.
• Continue cigarette free (23 days now!)
• and Finally to average $5k/month by this time next year.

Then I decided to re-vamp my company logo to show my attitude for this year. (animated unveiling above)

This year is about reaching goals no matter what the obstacles may be. To push forward, and not let anything affect my track. Thus the rhino image came to life. I figured there were few things more unstoppable then a rhino, and that it definitely portrays my attitude towards this year perfectly.

Last I decided to let this blog take on a much more personal role.

I’m tired of trying to follow all the rules. This is my blog, my house, no longer will it be slaved away. Previously, I wrote with intents of getting people to link to me, or search engines to be my friends. I don’t care about that this year. This year I want people to be my friends. I want everyone to know who Justin Brooke aka MpyreDzirez is, and what he does.

I just thought of another goal…to start getting comments on my blog posts.

I want all of you to tell me what it is that you want from me? Would you rather have “how-to” articles and top ten lists? Or do you want to see true case studies of my successes and failures?

Do you want to know what I read or heard…or do you want to know what I feel and know?

I know I’m no Guru yet…However, I have made a crap load of mistakes that you can learn from and I myself am always learning. Failure has truly been my professor in the school of success.

I’m ready to build relationships and attract friends…If you’ll have me?

Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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